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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Kurt Vonnegut

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Believe Fantasy Hands Myself Science
Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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One Liner
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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People Survive Thinking Training
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Care Deep Philosophy Pretend
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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Angel Evil Goodness Hope Reason
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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Art Growth Myself Practice Self Love Soul
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Different Myself Yourself
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Death Expectation Humanity Reward Yourself
The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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Funny Hate Kindness Oneself War
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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Happiness Myself Point Thinking Yourself
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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Appearance Mindset Person Stranger Trust
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Goodness Kindness Yourself
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Hate Herself Kindness Moments People
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Control Human Life Love Purpose
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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Greatness Human Literature relief Yourself
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Change Explanation Moments Simplicity Time

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